Greece

The history of the Greek cinema is inextricably bound to the complex
political history of Greece in the twentieth century. What constituted the
legitimate Greek state was still at issue in the early part of that
century. Millions of culturally Greek individuals lived under the rule of
the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Britain, and other nations that controlled
regions of mainland Greece and numerous Greek islands. The problematics of
who and what is Greek remain a perennial challenge for Greek cinema.